Exactly typed version of Proclamation 198 of 1940promulgated in Government Gazette dated 11 October 1940

No. 198, 1940. ]

No. 198, 1940. ]

Under the powers vested in me by section one bis of the War Measures Act, 1940 (Act No. 13 of 1940), as inserted by section one of the War measures Amendment Act, 1940 (Act No. 32 of 1940), I do hereby make the reulation set forth in the Annexure to this Proclamation, to be in force throughout the Union and the Mandated Territory of South-West Africa.This Proclamation shall be called War Measure No. 1 of 1940.

Every member of the Military Police Corps, established as a unit of the Active Citizen Force in terms of sub-section (3) of section twenty-eight of the South Africa Defence Act, 1912 (Act No. 13 of 1912), shall, while serving as such be deemed to be a peace officer for the purposes of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act, 1917 (Act No. 31 of 1917), as amended.